Do you believe that, had it not been dropped, Japan would not have surrendered and there would have been a land war, resulting in thousands more casualties and dragging the war on? It's never acceptable, in my opinion, to bomb civilians, and to be fair to the Japs, they never did (guess they never got the chance) but did Truman have a choice? Or was the whole idea of a "bitterly resistant Japanese force" merely a smokescreen to give him licence to go ahead and drop the bomb, which I guess has to have counted as a live testing ground?
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